On Sunday, Tsarnaev's uncle Ruslan Tsarni was the only relative at Stefan's funeral home.
An impressive civil-defense effort has been made, but only relative to the absence of anything before it.
All the historical records of sea level measure only relative sea level.
We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.
Morgan Stanley has abandoned its system of buy and (rarely) sell recommendations for a set of ratings that offer only relative, not absolute advice.
Tengo had visited him there no more than twice the first time just after he had entered the facility, when a procedural problem required Tengo, as the only relative, to be there.
Yet South Africa's decline is only relative.
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The study provides evidence that happiness is determined not only by relative income, but also by absolute income.
Abortion is the leading issue with only a relative handful of party members.
So imagine the shock when you see plenty of white males and only a relative handful of people who look like you.
Europe's medieval monastic tradition created scholars, true, but only a relative handful.
Mr. Baran, who says he had to scrape his brother's brain and pieces of skull from the floor of their home, lost only one relative.
Only a relative handful of people are fully compliant with recommendations for diet, exercise and other personal habits well proven to help keep hearts healthy.
"I still have children on the mainland and I still have a very elderly mother with dementia for whom I'm the only living relative and that obviously brings certain responsibilities, " he said.
Moreover, the source added, each federal agency may have many employees whose jobs are to allocate federal funds, but only a relative handful whose jobs are to "manage" or account for that money.
They argued only about the relative importance of different rights, and about the weight that should be given to individual rights and the conflicting doctrine of national sovereignty.
That is the only explanation for the relative calm on the market for U.S. government bonds.
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We trolled though the Global 2000 for stocks that look cheap relative not only to their U.S. peers but also to their own recent histories.
Once again, this is only true in a relative sense.
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Many of today's multinationals are huge, not only in absolute terms but relative to recent history.
That is only one reason why the relative lull in Islamist violence may not last.
Unfortunately, a caring relative or friend only can become cognizant if financial information is discussed or shared.
Put simply, the foreign currencies that have exhibited relative strength have only been strong insofar as the dollar has been very weak.
Authorities are not releasing the name of the relative who made the 911 call but said the relative was the only other person home at the time.
Upon reflection, however, it appears that the lower-than-expected home markup might arise because of the volume of standing room only tickets the Cowboys sell relative to other NFL teams.
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Her owner, who was heading from London to Radcliffe-on-Trent. only found out when a relative rang to say Bisou was missing and she thought the cat might be with her.
Its relative success not only inspired the launch of devices such as the Google Nexus 7, but it likely nudged Apple into the new midsize tablet market with the iPad Mini.
In America and Europe, however, market forces have been turning the big retailers into giants for much longer, so their Japanese rivals are still relative tiddlers and only a handful have nationwide brands.
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